The destruction of British cities during the German Luftwaffe attacks was the source of a major British national experience during World War II. Bombing was used in World War II against nonhuman military targets, against enemy troops, and against civilian populations (Dukievel and Spielvogel 758). The internet has proven to be a powerful resource in the retrieval of many websites and personal anecdotes of the Blitz. The internet has provided access to many historical resources to students of different educational and economic backgrounds. One is able to uncover many facts of the universe using the internet. Although many accounts of the London Blitz are uncovered during one’s search, many of these anecdotes are clouded by the writer’s personal eyewitness bias. Many university websites, news websites, government websites, and educational resource websites provide information to counter the false eyewitness accounts. These nonbiased resources provide proper insight into the events that occurred during the German Luftwaffe aerial bombings. The following four historical websites attempt to provide a correct view of the German Luftwaffe and the London Blitz.
The BBC, which funds Website A, provides an excellent educational resource which offers many news highlights from World War II. This website contains a
gargantuan amount of historical information. This website gives many details about the plans for the German invasion of Great Britain, the German bombing of British military targets, British industrial targets, British civilian targets, military tactics, military technology, military organizations, major politicians, and major military officers. Each historical topic about the German Luftwaffe bombings of Great Britain a...
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...t the horrors of war. The main focus of the passage is to provide an eyewitness account of the Luftwaffe attacks upon London. Any additional links on the page are generally advertisements from various companies. Although this website contains various eyewitness accounts, this website is not useful for the research of known historical facts because of its questionable credibility. This website is the least credible of all of the websites studied because of all the unnecessary advertisements.
It is beneficial to study all of the websites researched in order to foster a greater knowledge of the German Luftwaffe and the London Blitz. These websites can be used to broaden the general public’s knowledge about the German Luftwaffe and the London Blitz. The use of technology should be used to record the human experience of World War II and the horrors of war.
“The war correspondent is responsible for most of the ideas of battle which the public possesses … I can’t write that it occurred if I know that it did not, even if by painting it that way I can rouse the blood and make the pulse beat faster – and undoubtedly these men here deserve that people’s pulses shall beat for them. But War Correspondents have so habitually exaggerated the heroism of battles that people don’t realise that real actions are heroic.”
Why the Major Cities of Britain were Bombed by the Germans in 1940 and 1941
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On the night of March 5th, it is believed that a small group of boys began taunting a British soldier. Over the boys’ nonsense, the soldier battered one of his oppressors with his musket. Soon after the alleged incident a crowd of about fifty or sixty people surrounded the frightened solider. The enraged crowd of people sounded the soldier, encouraging him to call for backup. Soon after calling for help, seven soldiers along with Captain Preston...
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